The Basics of Psychology

An Online Primer

Starting on this page, you can find essays, articles, chapters, and entire e-texts of information concerning the many areas within the field of psychology, all written by the psychology professors at Shippensburg University.

Browse through the directory below, which is arranged by topics following how these topics might be arranged in a comprehensive general psychology book. Links in bold are to e-texts with multiple chapters; links in plain text are to individual articles.

Please use the "back" button on your browser to return to this page!

We also have another page called PsychUrls which lists websites by outside authors that our Psychology faculty have found useful for students. Click here to check it out!

We hope these webpages provide you with useful and enlightening information. If you notice errors of content or serious stylistic or typographic problems, please email the webmaster at cgboeree@ship.edu. All help is appreciated.